Sorting the World

Sorting the WorldThe basic hypothesis of this book is that linguistic reference to kinds should be seen as reference to sortal concepts, i. e. cognitive categories for identifying and classifying objects. Viewed that way, kinds serve as the interface between the conceptual system and the grammatical system. Kind level predicates differ as to whether they presuppose (e. g. to be extinct) or entail (e. g. to invent) the existence of objects, with crucial consequences

the ideas of the solipsist self and objectivity indeed often protect a political bias

Through anecdotes of writers like Vladimir Nabokov and their tenuous reception in Western literary circles

more often than not

This succinct

Asian American and Pacific Islander studies

Investigators from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the United States Forest Service took a mere two days to conclude that the liable party was the successful forest-products company Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI)

Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch is a powerful vision of a rapidly changing social landscape

and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities

highlighted a new dynamic in the racial politics of the nation

Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in

the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis

Smith recounts in his award-winning classic critique of the modern bioethics movement